I've already drawn too many trees with qtree, but I've discovered that I'll need tree-dvips to draw movements, and this package is incompatible with pdf. I saw that it's quite simple to draw syntactic movements with tikz-qtree. Should I switch for another package for drawing syntactic trees, once and for all? Any advice?
1 Answer
I would definitely make the switch from qtree
to tikz-qtree
. There's an extra package tikz-qtree-compat
which implements some extra features found in the former package. It's included with tikz-qtree
itself. You can't however, use the two packages at the same time, since they both define a \Tree
command which is not itself wrapped in an environment.
The syntax of the two packages is identical, but with tikz-qtree
you won't need any of the manual spacing !\qsetw
commands that are sometimes needed with qtree
.
You should have minimal problems converting old trees to the new package. If you like linebreaks in node labels (which I use a lot) you should add
\tikzset{every tree node/.style={align=center, anchor=north}}
to your preamble, so that you can do this.